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Cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Road cycling
Road race		men		women
Time trial		men		women
Track cycling
Individual pursuit		men		women
Team pursuit		men
Sprint		men		women
Team sprint		men
Time trial		men		women
Points race		men		women
Keirin		men
Madison		men
Mountain biking
Cross-country		men		women

The women's 500 metre time trial in cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics was a time trial race in which each of the twelve cyclists attempted to set the fastest time for two laps (500 metres) of the track.

In a field of personal bests, 20 year old World Champion for the 500 m time trial, Anna Meares from Australia, set a new world record to claim the gold medal in 33.952 seconds. The previous world record was held by Yonghua Jiang of China, who minutes previously had set a new Olympic record in this event to claim the silver medal with a time of 34.112 seconds. Natallia Tsylinskaya from Belarus was awarded the bronze medal.

Medalists

Gold	Anna Meares Australia (AUS)
Silver	Jiang Yonghua China (CHN)
Bronze	Natallia Tsylinskaya Belarus (BLR)

Records

Anna Meares's time of 33.952 in the event set a new world record, bettering Jiang Yonghua's world record and Félicia Ballanger's Olympic record.

Results

Rank	Race Number	Name	250 m Time	500 m Time
1	3	Anna Meares (AUS)	19.164	33.952 WR
2	7	Jiang Yonghua (CHN)	19.192	34.112
3	4	Natallia Tsylinskaya (BLR)	19.305	34.167
4	23	Simona Krupeckaite (LTU)	19.517	34.317
5	26	Yvonne Hijgenaar (NED)	19.519	34.532
6	16	Victoria Pendleton (GBR)	19.696	34.626
7	6	Lori-Ann Muenzer (CAN)	19.630	34.628
8	24	Nancy Contreras Reyes (MEX)	19.523	34.783
9	32	Svetlana Grankovskaya (RUS)	19.739	34.797
10	21	Sayuri Osuga (JPN)	19.704	35.045
11	17	Katrin Meinke (GER)	19.789	35.088
12	30	Tamilla Abassova (RUS)	19.982	35.147

References

• Official Olympic Report